Portal for Free

**Mayareira** · 2010-05-13 13:13

Can't help it.

**Isiolia** · 2010-05-13 13:14

I get the joke, but would agree that it's basically only able to be a joke if you're completely ignorant of the platform. The mouse pictured is an ADB mouse. The last machine that could actually use it was made in 1999.

Steam for Mac's basic requirement is an Intel based Mac. Those all include either a Mighty Mouse, or a multi-touch capable trackpad, both solutions allow for right click functionality. Granted, cludgy, sucky, holy-crap-where's-that-Logitech functionality, but it's there.

But, hey, sure, "dur hur, Macz only haz one button lolololol".

**Mayareira** · 2010-05-13 13:19

This Steam for Mac thing is pretty awesome, I wasn't expecting literally "free" versions of my PC library.

Hearts of Iron 3, Europa Universalis 3, FM 2010, Portal...and Civ IV I think?

And soon, Half Life and more. AFAIK they'll be adding a new OS X offer every Wed.

**Akucaen** · 2010-05-13 13:49

Goddamn, learn to take a joke Mrs. panties in a wad.

**Corrderio** · 2010-05-13 15:19

Originally Posted by Plow

You don't have to download it now or anything, btw.

Just log in to steam and click the gimme button and it's on your account just like any other steam game.

Stupid question, but since I never used Steam before will this be on my account permanently? As in if/when I get a new PC I can DL Portal on that as well?

**Kiarax** · 2010-05-13 15:34

Originally Posted by Corrderio

Stupid question, but since I never used Steam before will this be on my account permanently? As in if/when I get a new PC I can DL Portal on that as well?

Yes. All games you own are saved to your account and can be played on any computer.

**Corrderio** · 2010-05-13 15:35

Sweet, thanks for the info.

**fantasticdan** · 2010-05-13 16:29

I haven't played portal since the orange box first came out. Have there been any content updates/good player made maps/etc?

**Gryffes** · 2010-05-13 17:15

Originally Posted by Akucaen

Goddamn, learn to take a joke Mrs. panties in a wad.

Mac users don't have a sense of humour - mocking them makes them wonder why you're questioning their superiority.

**Pikarya** · 2010-05-13 17:18

Mac users = God tier Pyros.

http://i43.tinypic.com/jaunb7.jpg

**Kiarax** · 2010-05-13 17:45

NOT ANYMORE, GOD DAMN IT VALVE I WANT TO W+M1.

**blackomega** · 2010-05-13 17:48

Backburner

**Brimah** · 2010-05-13 18:33

Originally Posted by Kaisha

Updated OP with links to two of the more popular Portal usermap packs, for those wanting more after beating the official levels.

Thanks, didn't even know they existed, gave me a reason to download Portal again and to play through it!

**Kiarax** · 2010-05-13 19:05

I wouldn't recommend Prelude at all. Was pretty fucking terrible imo. Haven't played the Flash Map Pack though, might give it a shot later.

**Grimeybob** · 2010-05-13 20:09

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but meh.

I downloaded Portal but it's frustrating to play because my mouse cursor won't show. The crosshair in game appears, but the cursor for menus and to start the game etc don't. Anyone know a fix?

**vrumpt** · 2010-05-13 23:34

so if i played the XBLA version of portal but not the PC version should i bother with this at all? is there any hidden awesomeness in the PC version i don't know about?

**Pikarya** · 2010-05-13 23:52

Originally Posted by vrumpt

so if i played the XBLA version of portal but not the PC version should i bother with this at all? is there any hidden awesomeness in the PC version i don't know about?

Same thing, only difference is you didn't have to buy the Orange Box for PC back in the day if you wanted the game alone.

**Kaisha** · 2010-05-13 23:57

Looks like Valve has some work to do in the OpenGL optimization department: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3726/q...al-performance

If I had the bandwidth to redownload Portal for OSX I'd do a comparison myself (given I already have Portal installed on my Windows partition), but as I don't even have the basic Source engine file packs (running 3-4gb themself) I'll have to pass for now.

Going to be a bitch formatting my Mac though so I can resize the partitions since my OSX side is getting full. 150gb drive (yes I know that's tiny

) split 50/50 for Mac/Win because of Steam when I bought this thing a couple years back, but since all the shit I have installed on Steam is being ported over, I have no need to give it the full 75gb.
(probably resizing my bootcamp partition to at most 30-40gb if only for ME1/2)

**Mayareira** · 2010-05-14 00:11

Originally Posted by Kaisha

Looks like Valve has some work to do in the OpenGL optimization department: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3726/q...al-performance

If I had the bandwidth to redownload Portal for OSX I'd do a comparison myself (given I already have Portal installed on my Windows partition), but as I don't even have the basic Source engine file packs (running 3-4gb themself) I'll have to pass for now.

Going to be a bitch formatting my Mac though so I can resize the partitions since my OSX side is getting full. 150gb drive (yes I know that's tiny

) split 50/50 for Mac/Win because of Steam when I bought this thing a couple years back, but since all the shit I have installed on Steam is being ported over, I have no need to give it the full 75gb.
(probably resizing my bootcamp partition to at most 30-40gb if only for ME1/2)

Heh, 200gb drive here (145/55 between os x and win 7) and got merely 7 gigs left on os x partition...

I tossed Win 7 steam on an external drive. Total war itself is around 30gigs in size.

**Tekoa** · 2010-05-14 05:32

Guess I no longer have a reason to NOT have steam on my computer. Yay for free Portal and companion cube <3

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